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	<title>Respiratory Therapy Blog</title>
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	<description>from the frontlines of critical care</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ventilation in Pediatric ALI / ARDS</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2008/02/17/ventilation-in-pediatric-ali-ards/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2008/02/17/ventilation-in-pediatric-ali-ards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ARDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PICU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We know that the reduction of tidal volume during mechanical ventilation in adults with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) affects outcome.1  Although, the optimal tidal volume, airway pressures and ventilator modalities are still controversial, it is clear that 12 ml/kg tidal volume increases mortality in ALI and ARDS patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asthma and the Use of Household Cleaning Sprays</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/10/21/asthma-and-the-use-of-household-cleaning-sprays/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/10/21/asthma-and-the-use-of-household-cleaning-sprays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asthma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cleaners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been accumulating evidence that cleaning workers are at an increased risk for asthma and that specific professional cleaning products  such as bleach and sprays are associated with asthma. Many professional cleaning products are also used in private households. Recently a European based epidemiological study was published that investigated the risk of new-onset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ventilation with Face Mask and Bag-Valve Device Video</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/09/17/ventilation-with-face-mask-and-bag-valve-device-video/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/09/17/ventilation-with-face-mask-and-bag-valve-device-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emergency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Intensive Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Neonatal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PICU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New England Journal of Medicine in their Videos in Clinical Medicine section have released a video that covers performing positive pressure ventilation with bag-valve and face mask.
This video demonstrates how to perform orotracheal intubation. Specific indications are discussed, along with contraindications, troubleshooting, and complications.
Specific topics covered in the video include:

Overview
Indications
Contraindications
Equipment
Procedure
Complications

The video can be viewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SpO2/FiO2 ratio vs PaO2/FiO2 ratio in ALI/ARDS patients</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/09/12/spo2fio2-ratio-vs-pao2fio2-ratio-in-aliards-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/09/12/spo2fio2-ratio-vs-pao2fio2-ratio-in-aliards-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ARDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A PaO2/FiO2 ratio of ≤ 300 and ≤ 200 are used in the diagnosis of acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) for patients in acute hypoxic respiratory failure. The requirement for arterial blood gas analysis for diagnosis of ALI/ARDS and concerns about anemia, excessive blood draws may contribute to the underdiagnosis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endotracheal Intubation Video</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/06/09/endotracheal-intubation-video/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/06/09/endotracheal-intubation-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resptherapy.com/2007/06/09/endotracheal-intubation-video/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New England Journal of Medicine in their Videos in Clinical Medicine section have released a video that covers performing endotracheal intubation.
This video demonstrates how to perform orotracheal intubation. Specific indications are discussed, along with contraindications, troubleshooting, and complications.
Specific topics covered in the video include:

Overview
Indications
Contraindications
Equipment
Preparation
Orotracheal Intubation
Confirmation
Securing the Tube
Complications

 The video can be viewed and downloaded at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxygen Saturation in Neonates</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/03/29/oxygen-saturation-in-neonates/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/03/29/oxygen-saturation-in-neonates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Neonatal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide somewhere between 5% and 10% of all newborns require some form of resuscitation. There continues to be questions about how much oxygen should be used during neonatal resuscitation. Despite over 50 years experience of oxygen therapy in neonates, the use of oxygen in neonates, especially premature neonates is not well understood. We still don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Day</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/03/19/the-last-day/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/03/19/the-last-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PICU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue (March 13, 2007) of the CMAJ (journal of the Canadian Medical Association) a pediatric intensive care nurse from Edmonton, Alberta writes about what it is like to be left with the family on the last day of their child&#8217;s life.
For those of us that work in critical care we know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midday Napping for a Healthy Heart</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/02/15/midday-napping-for-a-healthy-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/02/15/midday-napping-for-a-healthy-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First it was said that wine may be good for me, then cocoa was full of antioxidants and now regular midday naps (siestas) may be good for my heart.
Midday napping is common in Mediterranean and in several Latin American countries and these countries also tend to have a low mortality rates of coronary heart disease. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Extubation after a Successful Spontaneous Breathing Trial</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2007/01/20/failed-extubation-after-a-successful-spontaneous-breathing-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2007/01/20/failed-extubation-after-a-successful-spontaneous-breathing-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intensive Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The time that patients are mechanically ventilated can be safely reduced by using daily assessments for a patient&#8217;s readiness to wean, followed by extubation after a successful spontaneous breathing trial.(1)  This method of weaning still results in a reintubation rate of around 10-20%. In the December 2006 issue of the journal of Chest, Frutos-Vivar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For a good read check out &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/12/31/for-a-good-read-check-out/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/12/31/for-a-good-read-check-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ventilators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Feburaury 2007 issue of Current Opinion in Critical Care has all respiratory related reviews and it is great reading for all. So find a copy and read an article or two. If you can&#8217;t find a copy and are interested in something specfic let me know!
Contact me.



 
February 2007, Volume 13, Issue 1

Mechanical ventilation: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Distress in Respiratory Therapists</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/12/02/moral-distress-in-respiratory-therapists/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/12/02/moral-distress-in-respiratory-therapists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quality Improvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent issue of Critical Care Medicine, Schwenzer and Wang (1) looked at the validity of a moral distress tool, developed for nurses, modified for respiratory therapists. Moral distress develops in situations when one cannot fulfill there their moral obligations to patients or they fail to pursue what they believe to be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CARTA Forum 2006 Wrapup - part 2</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/11/19/carta-forum-2006-wrapup-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/11/19/carta-forum-2006-wrapup-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monitoring Respiratory Mechanics during Mechanical Ventilation: Using the Ventilator as a Probe of Physiology - Dean Hess
Assistant Director of Respiratory Care, Massachustets General Hospital - Boston MA
The measurments that we normally take (Cs, R etc) treat the lung as a single unit. The lung is not a single unit.
Pplat = end - inspiratory alveolar pressure
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CARTA Forum 2006 Wrapup - part 1</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/11/07/carta-forum-2006-wrapup-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/11/07/carta-forum-2006-wrapup-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the College and  Association of Respiratory Therapists of Alberta (CARTA) annual educational forum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I will over the next little while provide a little recap of the talks I attended each day. My recaps will mainly focus on some of the more key and interesting points that came up during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cholesterol drugs may ease inflammation in smokers&#8217; lungs</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/30/cholesterol-drugs-may-ease-inflammation-in-smokers-lungs/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/30/cholesterol-drugs-may-ease-inflammation-in-smokers-lungs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[From Nature.com]

It appears that cholesterol drugs called statins could protect smokers lungs from some of the damage caused by smoking.
Statins are a group of drugs known for lowering cholesterol and helping to prevent heart disease. But they also seem to reduce inflammation and animal tests have suggested that they may protect the lungs.
A study from [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">news@nature.com</media:title>
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		<title>Slight site change</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/27/slight-site-change/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/27/slight-site-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The URL for this site is now just resptherapy.com. For many this won&#8217;t make much of difference as the URL resptherapy.wordpress.com still works and will continue to work in the future, you will just be redirected to the new URL.
Old permalinks and bookmarks will still work. The same redirection will apply to RSS feeds but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Cylinder Safety</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/23/gas-cylinder-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/23/gas-cylinder-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard that a cylinder can turn into a rocket that will go through a concrete wall if the regulator breaks off?
Well this settles the discussion.

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		<title>Thoracentesis Learning Video</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/14/thoracentesis-learning-video/</link>
		<comments>http://resptherapy.com/2006/10/14/thoracentesis-learning-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
The New England Journal of Medicine in their Videos in Clinical Medicine section have released a video that covers performing a thoracentesis.
Thoracentesis is used diagnostically to establish the cause of a pleural effusion. It can also be performed to drain large effusions that lead to respiratory compromise.
Topics covered in the video include:

Indications
Contraindications
Equipment
Preparation
Pleural fluid aspiration
plural fluid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuberculosis was rampant in North American mastodons during the late Ice Age and may have led to their extinction, researchers say. [via National Geographic News]
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		<title>Check out RTcorner.net</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.rtcorner.net
  RT Corner is a site created by the husband and wife team of Ken and Tammy Kane. Together their experience covers adult care , pediatric care, neonatal care and respiratory education.
The site has something for everyone. There is info on guidelines, products, calculations and a forum for discussion. They also have a RT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weaning predictors may delay extubation</title>
		<link>http://resptherapy.com/2006/09/25/weaning-predictors-may-delay-extubation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mechanical ventilation is associated with a number of risks and recognizing when the patient has adequately recovered from their illness that caused their intubation is key to minimizing their time on the ventilator and these risks. It has become common practice throughout the past number of years to use some bedside physiologic measurements (weaning predictors) [...]]]></description>
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